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---+ Kubuntu Notes %TOC% ---++ Gutsy Gibbon ---+++ Fuzzy Fonts After upgrading to gutsy, fonts might appear a little fuzzy. To fix this, go to <b>System Settings > Appearance > Fonts</b> and change the "Use anti-aliasing" box to "Enabled". Then click on the configure button and turn off sub-pixel hinting. ---+++ Compiz Follow this tutorial: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=601310 You may need to turn on composite mode for X. To do this, you can run =nvidia-xconfig --composite=, which as far as I can tell just puts this in your xorg.conf: <verbatim> Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection </verbatim> Restart X when you're done. Make sure you enable the *Window Decorations* plugin in the compiz configuration manager, or you won't have borders for your windows! The KDE pager and taskbar don't work with compiz. Install these instead: [[http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=46021][kicker-compiz]], [[http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=49484][taskbar-compiz]]. Here's a kubuntu gutsy theme for emerald: http://tinyurl.com/2typn9. And here's some widget information: http://compiz.org/Desktop_Screenlets. ---+++ GTK Fonts and Themes The _GTK Fonts and Themes_ portion of the Appearance settings seems to have disappeared. If you want to prevent KDE from applying its themes to GTK applications (firefox, pidgin, etc.), go to *Settings » Appearance » Colors* and uncheck "Apply colors to non-KDE applications". It turns out that Firefox doesn't behave well when KDE tries to apply themes to it, especially if KDE's current theme is dark. ---++ General ---+++ Building source packages If you need to build a package from source, download the source files and unpack them using APT. Next, change to the directory it created (something like =package-1.2.3=). You'll need to have =dpkg-dev= and =fakeroot= installed. Finally, run =dpkg-buildpackage= (%X% see the note below first before building) to build the package files (*.deb) which you can install via =dpkg=. In summary: <code> sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev fakeroot sudo apt-get build-dep <package> apt-get source <package> cd <package-1.2.3> dpkg-buildpackage -i -I cd .. dpkg -i <package-1.2.3> </code> %X% After installing the package you just built, =apt-get dist-upgrade= might install over your "self-built" package because it thinks its own version of the package is newer. To get around this, you can change the version of your package by using the =dch= command. You'll need to install the =devscripts= package to get this command. Run =dch -i= from the package source directory, and type a little note to yourself about why you're building the package from source. Then follow the above steps. ---+++ Using KWallet to store SSH passphrase Here's a nice little page that describes how to use KWallet to store your SSH passphrase: %BR% http://www.pontohonk.de/kde/ssh.html
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Topic revision: r7 - 29 May 2009,
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